TAIL-BETWEEN-THEIR-LEGS CONSERVATIVES. Kevin...

TAIL-BETWEEN-THEIR-LEGS CONSERVATIVES.Kevin Drum notes that a number of administration appointees plan on high-tailing it out of Washington in advance of the coming Democratic congressional investigations. The American Conservative Union, meanwhile, is massively tweaked about Republicans who've put their tails a bit lower. From a web-based letter-writing campaign they're hosting, which I was notified of by good old GOPUSA (remember them?):

Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Republicans could have played hard-ball. They had the power to bring the nomination out of committee and to the Senate floor, where Bolton would have been easily confirmed.

Yet they did NOTHING. They cringed behind their desks, determined to sneak out of Washington this week, tails between their legs!

Last month, the American people went to the polls, turned about two dozen RINOs OUT OF office and DEMANDED conservative government! And unfortunately in the process, the GOP lost its majority and a few good men like Rick Santorum, Jim Talent and George Allen.

But apparently our leaders did not get the message!

Talk about the impossibility of staging a graceful exit.

--Garance Franke-Ruta

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Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.